Wales Visitation (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Allen Ginsberg
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Nature, God, Beauty, Creative process, Drugs, London, Hallucinations or illusions, Vacations, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Buddha, Materialism, Mountains, Wales or Welsh people, Heaven, Fog, Hallucinogens, Clouds
The Poem
“Wales Visitation” is written in free verse and divided into nine stanzas. As is usual with Allen Ginsberg’s writing, the poem uses the convention of cataloging, begun in American poetry with Walt Whitman, the American poet who has most influenced him. Originating with a visit to Wales that Ginsberg took in July, 1967, the poem records his response to this visit and describes some of the beautiful scenery in Wales that he, as had so many earlier poets, admired. The poem was also inspired by an LSD experience, during which Ginsberg was trying to move beyond his...
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